Felix
Velando, Spanish writer from the Akumal International Artist Residency,
volunteered with us during the past month. He developed Writing-Workshops with
the kids, they loved the time to be creative and express themselves. They created poems, tongue-twister and
several stories.

Rachel
Kremidas, is an American artist from the Akumal International Artist Residency.
She is working on a beautiful mural for the Library. She was inspired in the
trees growing in front of the mural. We wanted to create a beautiful mural
with-out harming the trees, and that’s how her magnificent idea was born: Draw the trees shapes and filled them up with
a creative color combination and shapes. Rachel also created an Art Workshop
with the kids, to help them get inspired with one of her favorite things:
shades and shapes. The kids draw their body shape in a piece of paper and
filled them up with any using their creativity. The result: funky drawings of themselves. This was such a
fun activity, kids loved it!

We
had a Pregnancy and Maternity talked given by specialist Andrea Gonzales. The
workshop was focused to pregnant young girls from the community. The goal of
the workshop was to guide them through the process and help them increase their
knowledge about pregnancy and maternity. Another workshop was held on February
25th due to the demand, as it was a big success.

In
February we started the English Classes for adults and kids!! Linda Novak ,
Debby Oakley and Chica McCabe are our English teachers. Lessons will be on Tuesday
and Thursday every week.

Sunday, February 01, 2015

HB had a 3 day activity with the kids to apply the knowledge of the 3 R´s (Re-use, Reduce and Recycle). The kids helped collect “trash” inside the Library, and divided it depending on the material (plastic, aluminum, paper, glass and non recyclable). After everything was divided they selected several objects to create something new and useful out of it using their creativity.

At the end they presented their creation to the rest of the kids and we had a small award ceremony. It was an amazing activity as many kids were very excited and created amazing things, as a car out of a plastic box, old CD´s, used card-board and plastic or a submarine made of a water container and old PVC tubes, etc.

Check out these photos of the kids' amazing creations (click on photos to see larger image)!